Australian Climate Tsar Calls for Ripping Fillings from the Dead: “You Just Need a Pair of Pliers”

When it comes to saving the planet, you never ever know what they will demand next. Just last week it was a demand to “barcode everyone at birth“. This week, it’s the other, previously sacred, end of life they’re looking at, with a demand to rip the fillings from corpses with a pair of pliers.

In a stunning demand, Tim Flannery, Australia’s Climate Commissioner, has made a public announcement before a medical convention, calling for all mercury fillings to be removed by law from the bodies of the recently deceased so that they don’t pollute the atmosphere when cremated:

Addressing the Australian Medical Association’s national conference in Melbourne yesterday, he said an awareness campaign was needed.

“I think people would be comfortable with removing the fillings, it is just a matter of awareness,” he said.

Prof Flannery said undertakers should be required to remove the fillings and families also could request it.

“You just need a pair of pliers,” he said. “It is a $2 solution [to atmospheric pollution].

Barcoded at birth, teeth ripped out with a pair of pliers when you die. Not much a life is it? Still, at least human pollution will be being dealt with in as efficient, cost-effective manner as possible.

After my father died the undertakers bill included the crematorium charges. These mentioned an “Environmental Surcharge”. He didn’t have a heart pacemaker or any replacement joints, so I don’t know if this was for removing his fillings, or just some arbitrary tax…